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Melbourne Fringe Festival
Following in the footsteps of other fringe festivals, most notably the enormous Edinburgh Fringe in Scotland, the Melbourne Fringe Festival has grown incredibly from its modest roots in 1983 as an alternative to the Moomba Festival, into one of the biggest and most anticipated events on the entire Melbourne culture calendar. The Melbourne Fringe now runs for 3 weeks from late September through mid October, coinciding with the emergence of spring.
2008 dates
The 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival runs from September 24 through October 12, and is again sponsored by The Age newspaper, which is one of the largest Melbourne daily newspapers.
Date: August 10th, 2008 |
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Melbourne Bushwalks/Day Hikes
Check out this article from the Daily Boomerang. It looks like they had a fab time in the local Werribee Gorge near Melbourne. Come on! How can you resist going to a town called Bacchus!
If you are in the Melbourne area looking for an easy day hike that isn’t to far outside of town one of the places I highly recommend is Werribee Gorge State Park. I took a trip to this park that is located a short 40 minute drive west of Melbourne near the city Bacchus Marsh this past weekend. …
Date: August 8th, 2007 |
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Polio Case in Australia, July 1, Thai Airways
July 1st, the first case of Polio flew into Australia in more than 20 years. A word of caution for all travellers- always make sure you immunizations are up to date! If you were on Thai Airways flight TG999 from Bangkok on July 1, you should get in contact with Victorian Authorities.
Almost 250 people were on the flight from Bangkok to Melbourne early this month with a 22-year-old student from Pakistan who was later diagnosed with the first case of polio in Australia in 20 years, officials said.
About 100 of the mostly-Australian passengers had been contacted and efforts were …
Date: July 16th, 2007 |
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Car Sharing in Melbourne and Sydney
Do you live in Melbourne or Sydney, need a car occasionally, but not really enough to own one? Check out car sharing! These fun little cars are located in most of the popular neighborhoods of both cities such as St. Kilda, Manly, Newtown, Bondi, and the CBD areas. Help the environment, while helping yourself. Win win!
GoGet CarShare is perfect for people who don’t need a car everyday or want to get rid of that second car. It’s also perfect for businesses or organisations that get the …
Date: June 13th, 2007 |
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April in Oz, Festivals around the Country
So you are travelling around Australia, or maybe you live here and are in desperate need of a unique get away. check out a few of these festivals in a State near you!
Northern Territory
Tiwi Islands Football and Art Sale April 1
Alice Springs Cup Carnival April 21- May 7
Queensland
Ridley Polocrosse World Cup April 23-29
Australian Gospel Music Festival Toowoomba, April 6-8
Western Australia
Fremantle Street Arts Festival April 7-16
Quit Forest Car Rally April 28-29
New South Wales
Autumn in Sydney
Festival of the Blades, Hay …
Date: March 27th, 2007 |
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Melbourne city tour on the free tram
Many cities around the world have special bus or tram routes meant for tourists, which often circle through a collection of the most important sights in the central city. Melbourne has its own version with the City Circle Tram, and the even better news is that it’s absolutely free.
Where the City Circle Tram goes
Exactly as the name implies, this tram literally does a circle (actually more of a rectangle, but you know what I mean) around the Central Business District. It avoids the center of the city, but the stops are frequent so if you have a good map you’ll be able to get within a few blocks of anything you want to reach, and the blocks in the CBD are quite short.
Date: August 8th, 2008 |
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Melbourne Airport Upgrade
Melbourne is at it again! Trying to flash up their image as the shopping Mecca of Australia, now you don’t even have to leave the airport. A development plan has been put underway to basically add a mall onto the Melbourne International Airport.
Aimed at helping out the 12,000+ people who work at the airport, it is set to include a grocery store, bottle shop, bulky goods center (read washing machines and refrigerators), a gym, and even a child care center! Talk about one stop shopping. Now all …
Date: July 17th, 2007 |
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Melbourne, What to Do
Considering Heading waaaaaay down under to Melbourne and wondering what there is to do? Well…there is shopping, horse races, and apparently really good Italian food. Those things aside, here are a couple useful links that outline things to see, bands to listen to and mountains to climb!
That’s Melbourne
Melbourne Gigs
Outdoor Melbourne
Only Melbourne
Melbourne Cup
Fairy Penguins
Hostels
Date: July 9th, 2007 |
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The Cosmic Psychos- Aussie Exports to Look For
After a blazing return oto the live scene last April after a 9 year hiatus, The Melbourne Rock legends Cosmic Psycos are back with the release of a brand new album.
The Psycos new Album Dung Australia is out June 9th. A recent article described their new album as “Dung Australia reeks of the balls out, grunged up punk rock that the Psycos pioneered. Empty the pool, get on your deck and ride the walls.”
Date: June 7th, 2007 |
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Melbourne, See it all at the new Eureka Skydeck
Are you going to be in Melbourne anytime after April? If so do you like to walk on the trippy side? The new Eureka Skydeck is scheduled to open next month. Yeah Yeah, you’ve done the skydeck thing before, what makes this one trippy and worth a look? Well first you’ll be in the world’s tallest residential building and you’ll have 360 degree views of Melbourne through it’s floor to ceiling glass windows.
But…and here comes the fun part…to access the deck visitors must ride the fastest lifts in the …
Date: March 27th, 2007 |
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